Egg rolls are so ubiquitous in Chinese in the West that people don’t often pause to ask where they come from.

Since I first uttered my first thoughts about moving to China this has been the question everybody keeps asking. It didn’t stop when I finally arrived in the country.

One of the biggest possible chopstick faux pas is sticking your chopsticks straight up and down in a bowl of rice or other dish.

Chinese people only rarely drink plain water, and if they do, they drink it boiling hot, no matter what the temperature is outside.